The Cetacean Nation name
was born out of the incredible mind of world known dolphin researcher,
writer, philosopher, neurophysiologist and cultural icon, Dr. John
C. Lilly.
The following founding statement was composed with Michael Bailey
and Roberta Quist-Goodman in 1993:

Cetacean
Nation Development OutlineThe Human-Dolphin FoundationConceived
by Dr. John Lilly

The
rights of man have slowly developed over the last few centuries.
The rights that each of us enjoys today in the United States
have been carefully developed in our laws. Our past history teaches
us that our rights evolved through certain stages, from the unconscious
acceptance of a lack of rights, to the conscious awareness of
the need for adequate expression of an intolerable situation
or state, to the demand for the relief articulated in law, to
the law and its adequate administration.

As each group of humans, through its own
experience, learned to feel its lack of sharing in the benefits
of laws and their administration, each developed adequate spokesmen
or spokeswomen for its cause. These individuals were either inside
or outside the group needing relief.

This same situation can now be seen reflected
in the existence of cetaceans. Recognized as having brains which
are in some ways even more biologically complex than humans, and
having complex social structures, languages and socials behaviors
which are also at least as complex as humans, the question remains:
should cetaceans be given individual rights under human laws?

The size and complexity of the cetacean
brain has been known for many years. Only recently has microscopic
analysis shown that their cellular densities and connections are
quite as large and complex as our own.

Throughout history, through to the present
day, human beings have conducted large-scale acts of genocide
upon each other. Even today, in many parts of the world, we can
observe the mass slaughter of our own species. BosniaHercegovina,
Somalia and Cambodia are but a few examples of this. At the same
time, a similar mass-annihilation of highly evolved intelligent
and sentient creatures, the whales and dolphins, can also be seen
throughout our world.

The future of many species of whales and
dolphins is in question. The Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin,
the Vaquita dolphin found in the Sea of Cortez, and the North
Pacific Right Whale are but a few species whose chances of being
completely exterminated from our earth during the next two decades
is almost a certainty.

To insure the survival of cetaceans, in
light of the continuous onslaught by their terrestrial counterparts,
human beings, it is essential that cetaceans be recognized for
what they truly are: non-terrestrial intelligent lifeforms. Lifeforms
which do indeed have the same inherent rights that human beings
have to survive and to live in peace.

To attain this goal, it is essential that
the cetaceans attain a status in human society in which they are
recognized as the intelligent lifeforms that they are. It is with
this goal in mind that a Cetacean Nation is now being initiated.

1) To foster greater understandings of the
minds and consciousness of whales and dolphins;

2) To develop methods and technologies to
enhance interspecies communications between humans and cetaceans

3) To gain recognition from the international
human community to the inherent rights that cetaceans have, which
include:

- Freedom from mass specicide by human
hands

- Freedom to live in their aquatic
world and nurture their young

- Freedom to echo their own thoughts
on their futures

Long-Term Program

That these goals may be achieved in time
to actually insure the preservation of most species of whales
and dolphins, a series of endeavors should be initiated.

These endeavors would include:

1) Development of communications and understanding
between cetaceans and humans- it through modern acoustic technologies,
understanding of echo-location, possible holographic sound communications
or through concepts such as human-dolphin mind-connections

2) Recognition of the need for Cetacean
Nation representation in the human political and industrial society.
This may best be done firstly by obtaining through signed statements
of support from Non-Governmental Organizations the general recognition
for the need for Cetacean representation in the human world.

3) Organizing of electronic databases, libraries
and international forums for the advancement of communication
studies between human beings and cetaceans.

4) Worldwide distribution via the mass media,
electronic communications networks and through personal communications,
current information on the technologies, techniques and existing
and past projects whose purpose is to enhance human-cetacean understanding
and communications.

The eventual goal is to have cetaceans represented
as a nation within the framework of the United Nations. This goal
will most likely only be fully achieved once consistent communication
links with any one of the many species of whales or dolphins has
been established.

Political & Legal
Recognition

One possible series of steps involved with
gaining recognition for Cetaceans within the United Nations would
be:

Step 1) Recognition by individual human
beings of the need for eventual cetacean representation at the
United Nations and other global forums;

Step 2) Gaining recognition, via letters
and endorsements for the Cetacean Nation from Non- Governmental
Organizations and other geo-political groups;

Step 4) Recognition within human governments
and within international conferences and forums for the need to
explore and research the possible methods of establishing consistent
communications with cetaceans so that they may receive the recognition
of deserved.status.

Step 5) Recognition and validation of the
Cetacean Nation through the passage of resolutions at international
conventions, conferences, or other similar forums.

Step 6) Recognition, via letter or other
endorsements, from one or more member countries within the United
Nations for such representation

Step 7) Recognition of cetacean species
as a nation and separate group intelligent, sentient beings that
should be afforded rights to survival and happiness in keeping
with those afforded human beings in modern democratic societies.

The possibilities of this seven step plan
being achieved are significant, providing there is sufficient
interest and support from we human beings who wish to accomplish
these goals on behalf of our cetacean co-species.

To initiate this global endeavor, the wide-base
of dolphin communications studies needs to be consolidated, compiled
and libraried in such a manner so that researchers and laypeople
may have access to the developments of cetaceans communications
that have occurred over the past 30 years.

The Human/Dolphin Foundation library of
information and materials is being consolidated, along with libraries
of information garnered from others who have also engaged in cetacean
communications projects and endeavors.

All manner of cetacean communication research
will be compiled, libraried and analyzed. This research and information
shall include:

- Scientific research papers

- Still photographic images, video, and
film of cetacean activities

- Video, film and sound recordings of cetacean/human
interactions via music, audio times and other acoustic mediums.

Much of the current cetacean-human communication
efforts are limited in their scope, largely due to their limitations
in information availability. For example, various researchers
periodically publish scientific papers on their communications
studies, yet these studies are seldom read by others who are conducting
musical or acoustic interaction, or who are developing communications
and interactions via swimming with cetaceans in their aquatic
realms.

There are also people who are working towards
engaging in mind-connections or other interactions with dolphins
and cetaceans, who are unaware or do no know how to access information
pertaining to acoustical communications which are presently being
conducted or which have been conduced in the past. In short, many
of the people who are working towards trying to develop new technologies,
methods and strategies for human-cetacean communications are unaware
of the advances and results being made by others.

Moreover, many of these researchers and
investigators are also unaware of the methods of communication
that have been implemented and used by Dr. John Lilly and the
Human- Dolphin Foundation, and as such some of the efforts of
Dr Lilly are being unnecessarily replicated by others.

In order to expedite the needed breakthroughs
in human-cetacean communications, reduce duplication of efforts,
as well as develop consistent communications with cetaceans, an
electronic databank and information center needs to be established.

The role of this information
center would be:

1) To compile, organize and library existing
information from the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia,
and other parts of the world where cetacean communications studies
have been conducted.

2) To create an computerized database with
easy-access worldwide so that those wishing to understand and
access the existing human-knowledge on cetacean cornrnunications
can do so with relative ease

3) To organize forums and study groups of
cetacean researchers and interspecies communications enthusiasts
so as to determine the best steps towards establishing consistent
human-cetacean communication links

Presented to the legislative
body for the recognition of the Sovereignty of the Kingdom of
Hawai'i by Michael Hyson, Paradise Newland and Napier Marten.

Constitution of
the Kingdom of Hawai'I

Article I. The Rights of Citizens

Section 4. Recognition of the Cetacea
as a Sovereign People - the Cetacean Nation.

a) Whereas the Kingdom of Hawai'I resides
in a unique sacred region of land and sea; and whereas we recognize
both our dominion and stewardship of our precious environment,
whose sustenance and wellbeing are fundamental to the manifestation
of all the rights of the people of Hawai'I previously stated;
therefore, all effects of our actions on our Kingdom and environment
will be wisely considered out to the seventh generation to insure
the continued wellbeing of our 'aina and waters.

b) Whereas the Cetacea (whales and dolphins)
are an ancient race of intelligent, sentient beings, who have
been the friends and helpers of mankind for millennia, we hereby
accord to the Cetacea the status of a Sovereign People as the
Cetacean Nation, whose citizens are, therefore, entitled to the
same rights as are accorded our own citizens, as honored guests
of the Kingdom of Hawai'I, when residing in our waters. Henceforth,
the Kingdom of Hawai'I recognizes the Cetacean Nation, and its
right to enter into treaties, establish embassies, appoint ambassadors,
and, in short, perform all activities of a Sovereign Nation.

c) The Kingdom of Hawai'I hereby establishes
diplomatic relations with the Cetacean Nation through their appointed
representatives, both human and cetacean, and through direct
communications with the Cetacean citizens themselves, and will
enter into treaties and perform other actions as deemed necessary
to the recognition of the Cetacea as a People and a Nation.

d) We extend our Aloha to the Cetacean
Nation. The rights to liberty and life in a clean environment
of all living Cetacea will be held sacred; their rights to travel,
their right to free assembly, and their right to practice their
cultures freely in Hawai'ian waters, will be honored.

e) The Kingdom of Hawai'I will be a
friend and ally of the Cetacean Nation and support the extension
of their rights to all waters of the Earth, and in the halls
of Mankind everywhere, for all time.

f) We reserve the right to extend similar
rights to other peoples as well as the right to promulgate other
measures to assure the wellbeing of our environment and our right
relationship with it, as the need may arise.

is
committed to implementing the above itinerary.

Keep checking
back as this network grows inward and outward.- dolphinus